Doomseeker Player Numbers

Doomseeker Player Numbers

I notice when I refresh servers, sometimes it will show 50-100 people online. When I count the number of players ACTUALLY playing, the number is far lower.

Does anyone know why this is?

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:05 pm

by Doomkid

Do you have any wads or servers filtered? It shows the total number including servers you can't see if a filter is applied. If not, that's bizarre (take a screen if it happens again)

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 3:17 pm

by Zalewa

I have 61 human players and 40 bots right now on Zandronum. I counted and there are in fact 61 people playing on servers. Bots are considered as not-players when sorting servers if you have specific option in "Appearance" configuration checked.

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 4:23 pm

by Konda

Zalewa wrote:I have 61 human players and 40 bots right now on Zandronum. I counted and there are in fact 61 people playing on servers. Bots are considered as not-players when sorting servers if you have specific option in "Appearance" configuration checked.

The numbers are shown as "101 (61+40)" so that might be confusing people.

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:45 pm

by princetontiger

I have no server filtering applied.

Right now, I see 373 (242 + 131) / 536

I counted the total number of players, and see only 97 players. Why is this?

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:49 pm

by princetontiger

Here is a screenshot:

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 9:57 pm

by Zalewa

Splendid. Just another bug then. One that I cannot reproduce.

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:08 pm

by Hypnotoad

princetontiger wrote:Here is a screenshot:

Have you updated? I remember in old versions of doomseeker the playercount was bugged, but has long been fixed since then.

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:45 pm

by princetontiger

Yep. I am updated. it happens on my Mac at home.

Can you take a screenshot and show me the server list? Am I missing any servers?

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:03 am

by Konda

princetontiger wrote:Can you take a screenshot and show me the server list? Am I missing any servers?

Your server count is fine. I have the same server count. It's just that your player count is pretty much doubled...

Re: Doomseeker Player Numbers

This issue was affecting users who had "Lookup server hosts" option enabled in the "Appearance" config box. Since this option is on by default, I guess this was the majority. I keep it off, hence the counters worked correctly for me.